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Updated artwork for There’s Always Another Girl 2026 Vinyl Reissue

Juliana’s 2011 album There’s Always Another Girl is being reissued.

American Laundromat Records:

We are very excited to reissue one of Juliana’s favorite albums on vinyl. This exclusive 2xLP pressing features all 14 tracks from the original album on Sides A through C + Juliana reading the lyrics “spoken word” on Side D. Beautifully packaged in a Gatefold Jacket with full-color inner sleeves. Only 500 copies pressed. 3 vinyl color options.

Mastered Sean Glonek at SRG studios. Lacquers cut by Scott Hull at Masterdisk. Artwork by Aaron Tanner. Vinyl pressed at Gotta Groove in Cleveland, OH.

This will be first time the tracks Candy Wrappers plus And Again are available on LP.

Orders are being taken by ALR now with shipping expected in November 2026:

www.alr-music.com/collections/out-now/products/juliana-hatfield-theres-always-another-girl

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Amherst Indy:

The Amherst Dog Park is hosting a Friday evening concert on August 21 (2026), from 5 p.m. until dusk. Juliana Hatfield, alternative rock recording artist for ALR will open the evening. The acoustic trio, Nectar, will follow, playing music from the Americas.

The event is free to attend at Old Belchertown Rd Amherst, MA 01002

Bets, Juliana’s collaboration album with Eric Payne featuring her lyrics and vocals is being released on vinyl in September 2026.

Orders are being taken at Bandcamp and Omad Records.

The album was recorded a few years ago but not released digitally until February this year,

Juliana, writing on her newsletter site:

Sometimes I end up liking demos and rough mixes of my songs better than the final album versions and mixes. I’m not saying I like this better than the album version of “Mouthful of Blood” (from my album “Blood”) but there is something sweet about the way the sounds play together. Also something kind of gnarly. I don’t always record cleanly or “professionally” and I think there is an unintentionally open mic somewhere making some buzzy room or amp sounds somewhere on here.

You can hear the demo and read the article (which is not paywalled) at https://julianahatfield.substack.com/p/mouthful-of-blood

UPDATE: Juliana has posted another demo from Blood today. You can find her words with an early mix of “Splinter” at https://julianahatfield.substack.com/p/another-demorough-mixsong-in-progress

American Laundromat Records:

We are excited to reissue Juliana's eponymous covers album on vinyl. This new pressing features a brand-new vinyl master (with all 12 tracks), and updated artwork colors to distinguish it from the original pressing. Limited to 500 units and available in 2 vinyl color options.

The original vinyl release in 2012 omitted 2 tracks (Friend of Mine and My Wife). Now you can have them all.

Ordering details at: www.alr-music.com/collections/out-now/products/juliana-hatfield-covers-album

Annie Fell, Talkhouse Music:

Juliana Hatfield is a musician and songwriter based in Western Mass; Will Dailey is a musician and songwriter based in the Boston area. Both put out new records recently — Juliana’s Lightning May Strike came out in December, and Will’s Boys Talking was released on streaming in February — and to celebrate it all, the friends got on the phone to catch up about the grief that inspired both records, and much more.

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Juliana: Those people are so important. They’re so rare. And that’s why Gary [Smith] was such a huge loss to me — well, for many reasons. He was one of the smartest people I knew. He was complicated, but I felt like he really appreciated my music in a way that maybe other people who even liked my music didn’t really get it on such a level. He just appreciated it in a way that felt so sincere without being cloying. It wasn’t over the top. He valued it and he treasured it in a really cool way, and it meant a lot to me because my music was so much of who I was.

Read the full chat between Juliana and Will at www.talkhouse.com/will-dailey-and-juliana-hatfield-are-their-music/

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Well!

Juliana, via Instagram:

new surprise release alert! before i made my last album, "lightning might strike", i made this set of 11 songs with my contractor, eric payne (who is also a talented carpenter and visual artist [he made the cover art for this project]). eric wrote the music* and played the instruments (except for a couple of guitar tracks by me) and i wrote (and sang) the lyrics and melodies*. a couple of these songs ended up being redone for "lightning..." this album--named "Bets" --can be found at bandcamp: look for julianahatfieldandericpayne.bandcamp.com

*except for

"Sugartown" which was all Lee Hazlewood

Juliana mentioned the existence of this recording back in October 2023 in an interview with Grant Walters for Columbus Underground:

I’m always on to the next thing. After I finished the ELO record, I took a little time to not work on anything. But then I started working with this new friend of mine who is a contractor and a carpenter – and he’s also a musician and a songwriter. He had all these songs recorded with no vocals on them, and I ended up writing and recording a whole album worth of songs with him. So, I don’t know if it’s ever going to be released, but there are, like, 12 songs that I wrote lyrics for and sang.

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Update March 7, 2026: The album is now available on the major streaming platforms.

Track List

1. Your Social Security

2. Only Sister

3. Pass It On

4. Sweet

5. Temptation

6. Sugar Town

7. The Well

8. Angels Everywhere

9. New Flag

10. Thoughts To Send

11. Goodbye

American Laundromat Records:

We are very excited to release "God Bless the Blake Babies" on vinyl for the first time ever to celebrate it's 25th Anniversary. This label-exclusive reissue is limited to 500 units worldwide and available on black, midnight blue, or splatter vinyl in a gatefold jacket.

Reissue artwork prepared by Aaron Tanner. Vinyl mastering and lacquers cut by Scott Hull at Masterdisk. Records pressed at Gotta Groove Records in Cleveland, OH.

www.alr-music.com/collections/out-now/products/god-bless-the-blake-babies

From a good interview with Juliana by Greg Poblete for mxdwn:

mxdwn: … As you continue to look forward, see what fate has in store for you in the future. What stories do you feel like you have yet to tell in your music that you hope to write about? Or are there any more artists that you feel like you want to make cover albums for? What does the future look like for you?

Juliana: I keep going back to the idea of doing “Juliana Hatfield Sings REM.” I think that one would be really fun for me to do. I do want to do another covers album for sure. And then I actually have a lot… I have a handful of songs that I was working on for this album. I was originally going to make this album, Lightning Might Strike, a double album. But I realized it was going to take me like four years to complete it. So I ended up just putting 12 songs, completing 12 songs. And then I have about almost a whole other album with the songs that I’m working on. So I’m thinking I might do a volume, some sort of volume two of Lightning Might Strike. It wouldn’t be called Lightning Might Strike Volume Two. I’ll probably have another title. So that’s another thing I’m working on.

mxdwn: That’s exciting. I mean, in a way, I know that they say lightning doesn’t strike twice, but in this way, it actually does.

Juliana: I like the idea that the second album would be the second Lightning Strike, which never happened.

From Five Questions with Juliana Hatfield at Magnet Magazine:

Fort Apache Studios’ Gary Smith also gave a great interview for that podcast and sadly passed away not long after. How did his death impact you?


Well, when I mentioned the death of a close friend, I meant Gary. He was a really important person in my life … one of the most important, smartest and supportive of what I was trying to do with my life and music. We were planning on buying property together, with each of us having our own house but sharing other things, helping each other out as we got older. His death has been a huge loss.

American Laundromat Records::

We are stoked to release "Wild Animals" on vinyl for the first time ever! This exclusive pressingis limited to 500 units worldwide and available in 2 vinyl color options, packaged in a chipboard jacket with black inner sleeve.

Wild Animals was a somewhat low-key release in 2013 with a limited number of CDs made.

With vinyl delivery anticipated for March 2026, the ordering page is now up at:

www.alr-music.com/collections/out-now/products/juliana-hatfield-wild-animals

Juliana has posted a free to watch video of ‘How to play My Sister’ on her Harmonizing With Myself site.

how to play my "My Sister" by Juliana Hatfield

Read on Substack

From an interview at Music Connection by Rob Putnam:

One of her go-to pieces in the studio is the microKORG keyboard with a built-in Mellotron emulator. “I’m addicted to the flute sound and I put it on every album,” Hatfield observes. “There’s a lot of it on Lightning Might Strike. It’s so little, easy to plug in and is transportable. Real Mellotrons are delicate, heavy and big. There’s no way I could get one in my small space but I got to use one at [Cambridge’s] Fort Apache, a studio where I used to work.”

Juliana plays live session versions of Fall Apart, Constant Companion, and My Sister .

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Monte Belmonte and Kaliis Smith, for The Fabulous 413, New England Public Media:

Today has a distinctly femme bent.

And a bit of awe as well, as these two xennials get to meet a Bay State musical icon. Juliana Hatfield, in addition to her solo work, has been a part of Blake Babies, The Lemonheads, Minor Alps, The I Don’t Cares, and a swath of appearances alongside rock’s most influential voices, all while influencing the next generation of guitarists herself.

Her newly released 22nd album, “Lightning Might Strike,” is a return to the textured, punchy rock that was her M.O. for years in her early career while packed with lyrics and progressions that are full of emotions still being processed. We welcome her into the studio for Live Music Friday to hear more of her newest sounds and tales of her journey until now, including her move to the 413.

Photos from Sunday’s show by tommy.sheridan are up on instagram. See also video from lawrence.alabaster. Thanks to Carlos for the links.

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Juliana’s new album Lightning Might Strike is out today.

She briefly discusses 6 of the tracks in an article at Goldmine by Warren Kurtz:

Harmonies are obviously present on the 6/8 time “Harmonizing with Myself.” Hatfield reflected, “My harmonies are influenced by songs that I grew up on listening to AM radio in the ‘70s like ELO’s stacked vocals, which knocked my socks off, and the Carpenters and the Bee Gees.”

Juliana, speaking to Eric R. Danton at The Boston Globe (article paywalled):

“With the music, I’m trying to show people the real me, the real hidden parts of me, because part of my invisibility is that I don’t really share with people in my life,” Hatfield said. “I’m very reticent and very stoic outwardly, and I suffer on the inside, and I put that in songs.”

Into Music episode notes:

Juliana Hatfield returns with a sometimes dark, sometimes funny but always smart batch of songs informed by grief, aging, and a lifetime of questioning authority.